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Sunday Health Tip: Come to your SENSES…or, the Six Pillars of Natural Health & Wellness
SENSES is an acronym I came up with for remembering the six pillars of natural health: Stress Management, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, Elimination, and Sunlight/Fresh Air. If I’m being honest, though, if I were to put them in order of importance, it would be: Nutrition, Exercise, Elimination, Sleep, Sunlight/Fresh Air, and Stress Management. But that uses up all the vowels too early and NEESSS would have no mnemonic value whatsoever. So, SENSES it is. Stress Management: Let’s face it, stress is an inescapable part of modern life. In fact, we wouldn’t even want to escape all stress, because some stress is … Continue reading
Posted in Naturopathic Medicine, Nutrition, Women's Health
Tagged achieve, attain, elimination, exercise, fresh air, how to, importance of, maintain, natural health, nutrition, obtain, sleep, stress management, stress reduction, sunlight, wellness
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Ask Dr. Marcel: Natural Jet Lag Remedies for Babies
As a pediatric ND (Naturopathic physician), I have been asked by Mare to provide some advice to holistic mothers who are seeking out non-invasive solutions to their children’s health problems. I’ll start this week with Mare’s own question: Dr. Marcel, we’ve just come back from China, and my 1-year-old baby appears to be having a hard time with jet lag and getting back on our time zone. Any ideas for what we can do to help speed her transition? This is a tough one. Every child adjusts differently and it may take days to get back on schedule. Some parents … Continue reading
Posted in Naturopathic Medicine, Travel Tips
Tagged babies, chamomilla, homeopathic chamomile, jet lag, melatonin, sunlight
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